Medvarsity to launch two new healthcare e-courses in August

Within a month, the online medical certification and training company will launch two new courses in healthcare management and medicine segment for healthcare aspirants.ETHealthWorld | Updated: July 18, 2017, 16:20 IST

New Delhi: Medvarsity, an online medical institution, is planning to start two new online courses in healthcare management and healthcare medicine for students aspiring to work in healthcare industry, according to Medvarsity CEO Gerald Jaideep.

“In the last one year, there has been a dramatic explosion of fitness centres across the country, whether it is a gym or start-ups like getgrowfit.com etc entering into healthcare management space at corporate or individual level. Companies like these are recruiting professionals who are ideally qualified to manage the healthcare requirement of individuals. We are in the process of releasing the two university backed degree courses in healthcare management and healthcare medicine segments, which are designed to enable professionals who aspire for a career in healthcare, whether it is a nutritionist, physiotherapist or a spa worker. It will make a difference to their growth and our partnership with Apollo Hospitals will ensure that their jobs are guaranteed,” Jaideep told ETHealthworld.

The online educational certification programmes are not recognized by the Medical Council of India (MCI). “It does leave our students anxious as there is no validity post the certifications, which becomes a major challenge for us and the students. However, the industry endorsers recognize our high quality training courses. We hope that MCI reaches a stage when it will recognize the online certification programmes for medicos. I don’t see the shift happening anytime soon,” he said.

Around the same, Medvarsity is going to make a big announcement, which is yet not disclosed. “We are tying up with a large private university, which will give legitimacy to our students through recognition from employability perspective. The university will give graduate level degree support to our students,” said Jaideep.

According to Gerald, Medvarsity’s growth rate in the last 17 years has been between 30-40 percent and for the current fiscal year, the online institution eyes a growth of 100 percent.

He further said, “In the past, we were focussed on three sets of specialized topics, while currently we are investing more money and time on extending our portfolio of courses and expanding them to allied healthcare. Besides doctors, people who are at care giving environment such as nurses, healthcare workers or others who are a part of the healthcare industry can join the courses too. We are expanding into courses that can serve their needs of medical education.”